GIS for Archaeology, Module 5

This week was all about georeferencing, specifically of historic maps, and the lab assignment was to georectify an image of Captain Cook's 1785 map of Macau and its surroundings. I found this really challenging because the area has changed so dramatically due to development that it was hard to see how the historic map should fit onto the modern one. It was also tough to find useful control points--the historic map just doesn't give us much to work with if we can't tell where the historic landforms are on the modern landscape.

Anyway, here's what I came up with (after more or less giving up after a certain point):